Autonomous Quotes

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence… — Ravi Zacharias
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. — Pierre Duhem
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility — David Buss
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from… — Eric Hoffer
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive… — Christopher Hyatt
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with… — Daniel Pinchbeck
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference.… — Robert K. Greenleaf
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an… — Louis A. Johnson
In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible… — B.F. Skinner
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise… — Paula Gunn Allen
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right… — Robert L. Reymond
A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules — Robert Axtell
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no… — Henry H. Arnold
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more… — Daniel H. Pink
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort… — Roman Jakobson
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. — P.J. O'Rourke

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